# FastCopy | A GUI Wrapper For Windows Built-in Robocopy **URL:** \ **Category:** Tools & Scripts\ **Tags:** tools\ **Created:** [October 11, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/fastcopy-a-gui-wrapper-for-windows-built-in-robocopy/293316 "2024-10-11T20:42:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheStrength](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/thestrength/32/46753_2.png) [@TheStrength](https://onehack.st/u/TheStrength)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/fastcopy-a-gui-wrapper-for-windows-built-in-robocopy/293316/1 "2024-10-11T20:42:51Z")
# [![Frame 8](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6630660/212826788-9eeab669-783c-472b-98ed-ee049984cc19.png)](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6630660/212826788-9eeab669-783c-472b-98ed-ee049984cc19.png) FastCopy A GUI wrapper for Windows’ built-in `robocopy` ~~and `xcopy`~~. ## Features - Easy to use copy/paste/move/delete dialog, just like your good old explorer, but much faster🚀 - Support the new Windows 11 context menu, and the old windows context menu, with the fluent design icon adapted to Light/Dark theme [![](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/raw/master/Screenshots/NewMenuCopy_Dark.png)](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/blob/master/Screenshots/NewMenuCopy_Dark.png) [![](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/raw/master/Screenshots/NewMenuCopy_Light.png)](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/blob/master/Screenshots/NewMenuCopy_Light.png) [![](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/raw/master/Screenshots/NewMenuPaste_Dark.png)](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/blob/master/Screenshots/NewMenuPaste_Dark.png) [![](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/raw/master/Screenshots/OldMenuCopy_Dark.png)](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/blob/master/Screenshots/OldMenuCopy_Dark.png) - Integration with Windows Notification Center: a notification toast will pop up when the copy is finished [![](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/raw/master/Screenshots/notification.png)](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/blob/master/Screenshots/notification.png) - Speed graph [![](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/raw/master/Screenshots/speed-graph.png)](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/blob/master/Screenshots/speed-graph.png) - Confirmation Dialog [![](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/raw/master/Screenshots/confirmation-dialog.png)](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/blob/master/Screenshots/confirmation-dialog.png) - Integration with taskbar: a progress bar sync with the one inside the window [![](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/raw/master/Screenshots/taskbar-icon.png)](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/blob/master/Screenshots/taskbar-icon.png) - Settings [![](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/raw/master/Screenshots/settings.png)](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/blob/master/Screenshots/settings.png) - Multi-language support - English - 中文 ## Installation (before publish to Microsoft Store) 1. Go to the [Release Page](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/releases), download the zip file in the **Asset** section of the latest version 2. Unzip, double-click to open the certificate file ended in `.cert`, click `Install Certificate`. Choose `Local Machine` in the dialog, click `Next` [![](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/raw/master/Screenshots/open_cert.png)](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/blob/master/Screenshots/open_cert.png) 3. Choose `Place all certificates in the following store`, click `Browser`, and in the dialog choose `Trusted root certification authorities` [![](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/raw/master/Screenshots/install-cert.png)](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/blob/master/Screenshots/install-cert.png) 4. Then click `Next` and finally `Finish` to install the certificate. 5. Now you can double-click the `msix` to install the app. 6\*. **In rare situations, you might need to restart `explorer.exe` to see `FastCopy` in the right-click context menu** ## Usage 1. Using file explorer, select some files/folders, as many as you want \>\> right click \>\> move to **FastCopy** \>\> select **Copy** or **Move** 2. Go to destination folder, right click at empty space \>\> move to **FastCopy** \>\> select **Paste** ## Development ### Project structure ```auto FastCopy FastCopy\ --- Main project FastCopyShellExtension\ --- A dll project for registering the new Windows context menu SpeedTest\ --- A speed test project for measuring various copying method under Windows UnitTest\ --- Unit test for above projects FastCopy.sln --- The solution file for all the projects ``` ### Build pre-requisites - Visual Studio 2019+, with C++20 support & Universal Windows development workload - Windows App Sdk, with C++ template - Additional dependencies per project: - FastCopy: - spdlog - boost-algorithm - SpeedTest: - abseil - ftxui - cereal [vcpkg](https://vcpkg.io/en/) is the recommended package manager to handle these dependencies. You can install them with one command, and do no more. ```auto vcpkg install boost-algorithm:x64-windows vcpkg install spdlog:x64-windows vcpkg install abseil:x64-windows vcpkg install ftxui:x64-windows vcpkg install cereal:x64-windows ``` Other component comes from my very own [WinUIEssentials](https://github.com/HO-COOH/WinUIEssentials), which will be installed automatically by Visual Studio nuget. ### Known issue - App crash after the window closed (does not affect users, low priority) ### Recommendation Please install the [Child Process Debugger](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsdbgplat.MicrosoftChildProcessDebuggingPowerTool2022), so that the debugger would break at the copying process (after you launch the settings process). That is, you run the program first (so it goes into settings), then copy-paste a file, then the debugger will break automatically. Strongly recommended! ## Translation For contribution to translation, there are 2 places to be translated: - The main project, in `FastCopy/Strings//Resources.resw` - The shell extension project, in `FastCopyShellExtension/CopyOperationNames.cpp CopyOperationNames::GetInstance()` ### Prototype [Figma link, you may need to ask for permission.](https://www.figma.com/file/e5hUvDWKO8gZiKXruuNSvL/Xcopy?type=design&node-id=217-31199&t=cKY9TdBJXXi7QdFL-0) [![](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/raw/master/Screenshots/figma.png)](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy/blob/master/Screenshots/figma.png) [![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6630660/212826364-28155c87-c809-4ab8-b203-c8438fa64749.png)](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6630660/212826364-28155c87-c809-4ab8-b203-c8438fa64749.png) [![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6630660/212826583-75744773-2f10-45a7-8e5d-281ab1f9eee3.png)](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6630660/212826583-75744773-2f10-45a7-8e5d-281ab1f9eee3.png) ### Behind the scene #### Parsing `robocopy` output 1. New file line has the form of this ```auto New File 485 CMakeLists.txt 20:58 -> 20:58 ``` This can be matched with **staring with `New File` and containing 4 segments after split with `\t`** ```auto std::string_view{line}.starts_with("New File"); std::vector v = absl::StrSplit(s.data(), "\t", absl::SkipEmpty()); /* New File 485 CMakeLists.txt xx:xx -> xx:xx */ ``` 1. New folder line has the form of this ```auto New Dir 2000 D:\computecpp-sdk\.git\refs\ ``` This can be matched with **starting with `New Dir` and containing 2 segments after split with `\t`** (the spacing between `New Dir` and number are spaces, not `\t`) ```auto std::string_view{line}.starts_with("New Dir"); std::vector splitted = absl::StrSplit(absl::string_view{ line.data(), line.length() }, "\t", absl::SkipEmpty()); /* New Dir 2000 D:\computecpp-sdk\.git\refs\ */ std::pair count = absl::StrSplit(splitted[0], " ", absl::SkipEmpty()); /* New Dir 2000 */ ``` ## GitHub: [https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy](https://github.com/HO-COOH/FastCopy)